linux-kernel - Re: [tip:perf/core] perf ui annotate browser: Allow toggling addr offset view

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Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:21:50 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, hpa@...or.com,
	paulus@...ba.org, eranian@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	efault@....de, namhyung@...il.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
	dsahern@...il.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org, yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [tip:perf/core] perf ui annotate browser: Allow toggling addr
 offset view

On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 08:02 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> It really would be *much* better if you could parse the
> 'altinstructions' section. You already have a lot of ELF parsing code.
> 
altinstructions, altinstr_replacement, smp_locks, __jump_table,
parainstructions, __mcount_loc and maybe a few more.. and that doesn't
allow for kprobes.

But yeah, being able to grok some of that would be neat.
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